Of all the uses of thread I saw at the art fairs, and they were myriad and multitudinousness, even more so than last year, Matthew Cox’s embroidery on x-ray at Pentimenti Gallery’s booth at Pulse struck me as novel and apt.
The Botticelli-esque embroidery fleshes out the lines suggested by the x-rays. The contrast between the x-ray and the embroidery works well, although I wish the pieces could have been backlit to show off the x-rays better.
I felt like I was seeing a lot of the same things that I saw (and liked) last year at Pulse Art Fair this year. Magdalena Mura then, above image from 2010, and now:
Priscila Di Carvahlo then and now:
Seong Chun then and now:
Byung-Chul Woo’s Seeing and other work at Young Art Gallery are beautifully intricate, yet simple, and the pops of color are well-placed. It’s an oil-on-canvas rendition of why I love living in NYC.
I wish I could find more details on it, or the work below.
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| Jordan Eagles at Krause Gallery |
Made with blood. ‘Nuff Said. Although if you did want the details, its oxblood, acrylic, resin and copper, and it looks much better in person than in this photograph.
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| Makeup by Eric Finzi at SFA Projects |
Marlene Dumas, much? Yet these figures on epoxy resin tell more of a story and make nice use of the medium.
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| Carlos Quintana painting at Juan Ruis Galeria |
Carlos Quintana, a Cuban artist I loved here, made a surprise appearance.